{"id":1274,"date":"2015-08-30T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T18:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2015-08-30T12:08:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T18:08:01","slug":"communion-peek-a-boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/catholic\/communion-peek-a-boo\/","title":{"rendered":"Communion Peek-a-boo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/holy_eucharist12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/holy_eucharist12-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"holy_eucharist1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>This whole interaction between God and Man, throughout all of scripture, with God walking with Adam in the garden in Eden, with God speaking to Moses through a burning bush, with God\u2019s power present in to the Israelites in a pillar of fire and smoke, with God speaking like a whisper in the wind to Elijah, seems like a father playing peek-a-boo with a child.\u00a0 Look at the delight of a baby or small child when you cover their eyes or yours asking, \u201cWhere\u2019s daddy?\u201d, then uncovering them and exclaiming \u201chere\u2019s daddy.\u201d\u00a0 The child quickly learns that this whole act of covering and uncovering is called Peek-a-boo, when you switch from saying, \u201cwhere\u2019s daddy &#8211; here\u2019s daddy\u201c, to saying simply \u201cpeek-a-boo\u201d.\u00a0 In this playful interaction parents teach their children motor skills and reinforce the parent\u2019s identity through \u201cface time\u201d.\u00a0 By that I mean, time spent looking at eachother, is time spent bonding.\u00a0 This is a perfect example of what happens at Holy Communion.\u00a0 God has externally covered His entire Self with the appearances of bread and wine so that, consuming Him, we may internaly discover His entire Self.\u00a0 The entire Mass, and especially Communion can then be understood to be a bonding moment with Christ; face-time between God and His children. \u00a0Let us delight in Him!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on a book that covers the above material more fully. \u00a0Let me know if you find it interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/catholic\/communion-peek-a-boo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-content\/plugins\/thumbnail-for-excerpts\/tfe_no_thumb.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>This whole interaction between God and Man, throughout all of scripture, with God walking with Adam in the garden in Eden, with God speaking to Moses through a burning bush, with God\u2019s power present in to the Israelites in a pillar of fire and smoke, with God speaking like a whisper in the wind to &#8230; <a title=\"Communion Peek-a-boo\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/catholic\/communion-peek-a-boo\/\" aria-label=\"More on Communion Peek-a-boo\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}